Also, Mr. Keating showed his class a picture from a previous graduating class. During this time he would repeat the same words over and over again forcing the class to wonder where he was going with this. Mr. Keating was also able to make class fun. He believed that the best learning environment was a fun environment. Mr. Keating wasted no time in letting his class know that his class would be fun. It all began the day Mr. Keating took over his new class. He ordered his class, also known as his sailors, to address him as "Oh Captain, My Captain." Also, when the class first began discussing poetry he told them to rip out the pages that contained the introduction from the text and to throw these pages away. At first the students thought it was a joke, however, they still ripped out the pages. Mr. Keating had a way of confusing his students. It seemed like he would never talk in a normal language. He would often recite poems to get his point across to his students. Often he would use lines from Shakespeare, or David Frost and let his students try and guess what he was talking about. This led to many lessons where his students would ask each other, "What is he doing?" or "What is he talking about?" His class eventually realized that he was trying to get them to use their minds more and seek different routes to solving problems.
A magician is someone who appreciates difference in every human being. They enjoy watching people trying to go about doing easy tasks in a variety of ways. Mr. Keating was one of these people. He was the one who introduced this concept to his class knowing full well that it would probably make them feel dumb. An example of this is when he instructed his class to look at things from a different perspective. For this the students went to the front of the class, stood on his desk, and looked around the classroom. Indeed the room looked different, and the students were impressed with the results of the exercise because it was something they had never thought of before.
